ANOTHER DREDGE FATALITY.
TWO MEN DROWNED. The secretary of the Dunstan Lead Gold Dredging Company informs us that be has received a message from the local director at Alexandra as follows:—" Blatch and Ferris were drowned off the Dunstan Lead dredge this morning while coaling. It is not yet clear how tho accident happened." A later message states that the boat went down as it was going across the line with coal and while changing shifts. There were four men in the boat at the time. Two got out and were saved. Blatch and Ferris were drowned. There is so far no sign of the bodies. [Special to the Stab.] Our Clyde reporter wires:—A fatal accident occurred this morning off the Dnn-st-an Lead dredge. Four men were in the boat coaling, when the water came over the gunwale, washing them overboard. Two of the men, Herbert Blatch (engineer) and Richard' Ferris (fireman) were drowned. Blatch is a married man, and lived in Mornington. Fen-is is a native of Oamaru. A boat was out from the New Alexandra dredge three minutes after the accident, but saw no sign of the men. »
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Evening Star, Issue 11664, 26 September 1901, Page 4
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190ANOTHER DREDGE FATALITY. Evening Star, Issue 11664, 26 September 1901, Page 4
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